Other People's Houses

Lore Segal

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"An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book." -The New Republic

Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel.

Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children's transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in "other people's houses," the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. An insightful and witty depiction of the ways of life of those who gave her refuge, Other People's Houses is a wonderfully memorable novel of the immigrant experience.

Book Details

Publisher: New Press
Publish Date: Nov 30th, 2004
Pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: undefined - 0040
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.85lb
EAN: 9781565849501
Categories: • Literary• Historical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust• Family Life - General

About the Author

Segal, Lore: - Lore Segal (1928-2024) was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People's Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare's Kitchen (all published by The New Press) and other works, she was a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and other publications.

Praise for this book

Praise for Other People's Houses:

"An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book. On the surface it is an account of flight from the Nazis, of displacement and transplantation; but beneath that it contains an extraordinary rendering of the self."
-The New Republic

"A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir . . . [Lore Segal has] the sharp analytic eye of a born writer."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Great sensitivity, coolness, and charm . . . the keen innocent observation of the child's-eye view."
--New York Review of Books